Dr. Manimekalai Mohan
Dr. Manimekalai Mohan
It is Dr. Manimekalai Mohan’s belief that great teaching isn’t merely about imparting knowledge, but inspiring children to develop a passion for lifelong learning. Her institution, SSVM, has established a formidable reputation for delivering a holistic education rooted in Indian values and traditions to students mentored by more than 800 ace educators across its 7 campuses, assisted by an invigorating atmosphere, global and creative academic programmes, and world-class facilities. SSVM's journey began in 1998 through Shree Sarasswathi Vidhyaah Mandheer, a play school that has now metamorphosed into a day and residential school affiliated to CBSE. Athma-Seva - a unit for differently-abled children at one of its main campuses was concurrently initiated with a motive to develop vocational skills and prepare them for an independent life. Today, SSVM Group of Institutions are a chain of schools in Coimbatore and Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, offering quality education for K-12, providing a range of curriculums [CBSE, Cambridge International, Matriculation (State Board), and NIOS]. Dr. Mohan is shaping the future of generations of students in her own inimitable way. Her quest for excellence and perfection will make an impact for decades to come.
MiQ Digital India
Ramya Prashar
MiQ was incepted on Oct 1, 2010, in the UK and launched in Bengaluru CoE in April 2012. MiQ is one of the best programmatic companies for marketers and agencies. The company has a diversified customer base of more than 2,000 advertisers, 30 per cent more revenue from top 20 advertisers in 2021, and 89 per cent net revenue retention. MiQ, with stronger regional coverage and greater depth and range of relationships, is best positioned to capture a disproportionate market share.
Ramya is the COO for MiQ Bangalore CoE. Her role demands designing and implementing business operations, managing the bottom line, and establishing policies that promote company culture and vision. She is a graduate in electronics and a certified digital business strategist and organisational performance expert from IIM Bangalore. Establishing a data-driven and sales intelligence mindset among the teams is another achievement for Ramya because understanding the customers better and responding, rather than reacting, to the quickly shifting market demands was paramount. She has also succeeded in driving bottom-line efficiency and enhanced operational rhythm with the right set of enterprise objectives and KPIs. Building the intelligence for CoE through internal analysis and external insights has been her priority.
Premas
Incepted in 2006 by a team of avid science enthusiasts and experienced professionals, Premas Life Sciences is a young, focused and dynamic Indian organisation on a mission to introduce cutting-edge technologies in genomics and cell biology.
Our MD, Mr. Praveen Gupta, founded the company with a vision of bolstering India’s research and clinical community with myriad products, which have revolutionised biology in unimaginable ways. A journey that started with bringing Illumina - the global genomics brand - to India, continues to thrive with many more game-changing technologies like 10x Genomics, Twist Lifesciences and Covaris.
Being reliable knowledge partners, we constantly assist our clients in making their transition easier. Our customer-centricity has brought us many accolades over the decades. Premas life sciences have had a 35%+ CAGR in last 11 Years to become a major player in life sciences industry. During Covid , 90% of Covid Genomes sequencing efforts were done on Illumina platforms with able support from Premas lifesciences in India.
Premas believes that employees are the heartbeat of any organisation, and we have pledged to make a harmonious open workplace culture for them. We strongly advocate openness, compassion, gratitude and work life balance as one of the key drivers of employee engagement and our workplace enshrines these core beliefs without any hierarchical influence. With a dynamic workforce by our side, we look forward to diversifying into RnD and manufacturing in the near future.
Cold Steel Corporation
Mr. Ankur Bedi
Cold Steel Corporation has been the pioneers of innovation in the pre-engineered buildings industry in India. It was founded in 1977 by the visionary technocrat, Mr. Rajwansh Bedi. Cold Steel Building Systems pioneered the concept at a time when steel was scarce and customers were not aware of the advantages of using custom-built steel sections and pre-engineered structures. Since then, Cold Steel Corporation has emerged as a leader in the Indian P.E.B. market by introducing world-class steel building designs and details suited to local conditions and the available building materials. The company has completed more than 10,000 buildings till date, including Asia’s largest float glass manufacturing facility for Saint-Gobain Glass Ltd. at Chennai and Bhiwadi, and the iconic 26-storey IFCI Building in New Delhi. Today, Cold Steel not only caters to the Indian market, but has done more than a dozen major projects abroad and is looking at sustained business opportunities in the North American markets.
Bipin Sule
Bipin Sule
The incumbent CEO of Vishwakarma Institutes & University in Pune, Dr Bipin heads the operations of the educational group, which has 5 campuses, over 15 Institutes, over 1,500 staff and more than 20,000 students from India and abroad, offering more than 60 courses, providing quality education at affordable cost. Dr Bipin is a computer engineer and did his Post Graduation & Doctorate in management. He is also a recipient of honorary doctorate, and several national and international awards, like the Shiksha Bharati Puraskar by All India Achiever’s Foundation, Distinguished Educationist - 2015 by BERG Singapore, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Professional Excellence Award by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Research Centre, among others, Sakal Idol of Maharashtra. He is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt & Black Belt professional. He is a fellow member of Institution of Engineers - IEI [India]. He is known for negotiation and conflict resolution skills, innovative thinking, quick decision-making, and leadership qualities.
RouteToMarket Media India Pvt. Ltd
Abhishek Singh
Established in 2017, RouteToMarket Media (R2MI) was formed with a sole vision to build a platform for the future to facilitate one-stop-solution for its clients. The founders realised that many a company are planning to MAKE IN INDIA, but no one is planning HOW TO SELL IN INDIA and HOW TO SELL TO INDIANS. This gave birth to being a market servicing provider for brands looking to set foot in India. Within a year of operation, R2MI got recognised as complete 360 Degree Business Solutions’Factory. The founders of R2MI have been the driving force behind its success - Mahaveer Jain is highly charged with ideas and carries a positive outlook, Abhishek Singh is more of a strategist who designs go-to-market strategies for his clients, and Ramnivas Bishnoi, a CA by profession, takes care of all the legal and financial compliances. Winner of “India 5000 Best MSME Awards 2020”and nominated for “Emerging Start-Up of The Year 2019”, R2MI has come a long way.
Amit Bagthalia
Amit Bagthalia
A veteran in the FMCG industry, Bagthalia cut his teeth in the rough and tough of the branded retail distribution market as a national sales manager at the Hygienic Research Institute in Mumbai (Strix Brand). Under Bagthalia’s able guidance, Safilo Healthcare of Morvi launched “Champs”, an Indian brand of baby pull-up diapers in 2015. The company sold out 1.35 crore baby pull-up diapers in north India in 45 days in 2016. After winning the Indian rural market, he ventured abroad. Bagthalia’s company Health2Hygiene.Com has successfully built on his multipronged approach to offer consultancy services. It has carved a niche for itself in the domestic and international markets. It has spearheaded successful product launches in India, Qatar, Africa, and Syria. Bagthalia has now turned his attention to the healthy foods category, and is all set to launch frozen potatoes, sweet potatoes, banana fries, and various other products in the instant foods market.
Lalit Bokadia
Mr. Lalit Bokadia
Moxy Steel Impex is an ISO 14001 : 2015 certified company, and manufactures standard metal products as well as customised ones as per specific industry demands. The products are engineered specially to meet component design, operating needs and material specifications to ensure efficiency, safety and economy. The company was founded on the strong pillars of experience, innovation and technology, with Mr. Lalit Bokadia (CEO) bringing over 20 years of industry experience. The core strength is the team of experienced, skilled and dedicated executives. Moxy Steel Impex is a highly-acclaimed manufacturer and supplier of all ferrous and non-ferrous metal products like pipes, tubes, flanges, buttwelded pipe fittings, foged fittings, tube fittings, sheets, plates & coils,coils, foils, shims, bars, fasteners, valves, gaskets, perforated sheets, wire rope & wire mesh, hose pipes, anchors, dairy fittings & all electrical items.
Naheed Muqeetulla
Naheed Muqeetulla
Muqeetulla is the founder of Urbano, a youth-centric, digital-first apparel brand that offers trendy and quality-driven clothing to the style-conscious young population of modern India. The products, which include jeans, chinos, tshirts, shirts, denim jackets and hoodies, are available on online platforms like Amazon, Myntra, Flipkart, Nykaa Fashion, Ajio and on the brand website www.urbanofashion.com. Urbano has become one of the top private labels in the online space for men’s and kids’clothing, growing at a CAGR of 156 per cent over the last 6 years.
Muqeetulla, who has a degree in finance and is a gold medallist in accounting, heads the finance and sourcing departments of the company. She has done her entrepreneurship course from IIM-B, and has 8 years of experience in managing finances and accounting. She also oversees the design and merchandising of the products while keeping in mind new trends and the Indian customer requirements.
Muqeetulla was named among the 25 Iconic Business Women of 2022 by CEO Magazine and is also a certified Iron Lady. TMRW, an Aditya Birla Group venture, has recently invested in Urbano to scale the D2C brand.
Ms. Megha Sharma
Ms. Megha Sharma
Ms.Megha Sharma is the Founder of Panacea BioEdge Pvt Ltd and Co-Founder of Panacea Healmed Pvt Ltd. A Medical professional from the UK and USA, mental healthcare and child welfare activist, innovator, and entrepreneur, she works with a mission to transform mental healthcare practices and provide support to people experiencing mental health problems. Never giving up and continuously finding solutions to problems is the key mantra for Ms. Megha Sharma.
With technology-led solutions at the core of her problem-solving approach, she has been relentlessly enabling mental healthcare facilities to operate more effectively and efficiently. She believes in combining business strategy and technology to create empathetic solutions that tackle an individual's mental health issues with great precision.
Working with many healthcare institutions, schools and corporates, to provide an AI-powered digital assistant embedded in a modern care delivery platform designed to address mental health care delivery challenges and create a more streamlined experience for patients. A fashion & fitness enthusiast, an avid reader, she also enjoys cooking and traveling.
